Motivational Quotes

Wealth

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

- Peguy, Charles

Best Quotes about Wealth

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.

Proverb, French

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.

Young, Andrew

But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. [Matthew 6:20]

Bible

Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.

Oprah Winfrey

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

10.

Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.

Ovid

11.

Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again.

Rodman, Frances

12.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

14.

A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.

Proverb, Spanish

15.

It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.

Billings, Josh

16.

The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?

Peter, Laurence J.

18.

There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger.

Mizner, Wilson

19.

This is the law of prosperity. When apparent adversity comes, be not cast down by it, but make the best of it., and always look forward for better things, for conditions more prosperous.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

20.

A penny is a lot of money, if you have not got a penny.

Proverb, Yiddish

21.

The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

22.

After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.

Proverb, American

23.

A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.

Proverb

24.

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

Wirt, W.

25.

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

26.

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

Dietrich, Marlene

27.

It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

Lucretius

28.

What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.

Ruskin, John

29.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

30.

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

Seneca

31.

Wealth is what gives you the right to preach about the virtues of poverty.

32.

The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.

Rivarol, Antoine

33.

Maybe it would be better to acknowledge, like the Greeks, that a lot of behavior we call addiction is really a love of pleasure that carries the force of habit. We become addicted mostly because of the central issue in all self-control problems, which is the disproportionate value we place on short-term rewards.

Daniel Akst

34.

Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.

Elizabeth Aston

35.

The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise wealth in comparison to something else, or, they are not content in getting an estate, unless they may do it in their own way, while at the same time enjoying all the pleasures and gratitude's of life.

Budgell, Eustace

36.

Of the wealth of the world each has as much as they take.

Proverb, Italian

37.

I've been more bossed by my fortune than it has been bossed by me.

Lippett, John P.

38.

Wealth is so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languages it has usurped her name.

Melbourne, Lord

39.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.

Proverb

41.

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

43.

Whether you wind up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends on the kind of chick you married

Wall Street Journal

44.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.

Venning, R.

46.

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.

Channing, William Henry

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Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.

Thoreau, Henry David

48.

For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one's destruction or their use. A standard both to buy and sell, all things from heaven down to hell.

Butler, Samuel

49.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Benjamin Franklin

50.

The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?